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RUSSIA*IRAN*DISCO*SUCK
05:00
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We’re not constrained by borders
we’ve exported you our culture
can you taste the sugar?
It’s in carbonated water
it’s in family entertainment
take these pills and get some sleep
Commoditisation // Market innovation
If you wanna dance I’ll show you how
but you’re playing with the big boys now
it's the Wild West
RUSSIA*IRAN*DISCO*SUCK
Everything to buy and sell
your education, health as well
it’s all the same
RUSSIA*IRAN*DISCO*SUCK
In the Middle East the war is won
on Wall Street and in tinsel town
in oil fields
RUSSIA*IRAN*DISCO*SUCK
It’s called democracy we say
when markets piss your dreams away
it’s the price we pay
RUSSIA*IRAN*DISCO*SUCK
We’re watching you // you can be sure
although it’s not the cold war any more
you can feel the heat?
It’s in Charlton Heston’s Oscar
in tiny bits of shrapnel
stuck in classroom walls
Heed my ideology // you can buy your freedom from me
We’re on a mission from God
can’t escape our rhetoric
this is the new empire
white goods and body image
RUSSIA*IRAN*DISCO*SUCK
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You tried to decorate history with your flag
beauty // subversion // revolution your epigraph
but even your deepest truths have cosmetic scars
maybe it’s for nothing but a memory of purpose?
Your ideas set you free
but you got lost in the machine
and you fall back into the arms of banality
You tried to give hope to a neglected mass
but all they want is carbon prints of spectres of the past
to you it offers strength within an aesthetic lie
as you clutch at your future with a hopeless voided design
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Dereliction
03:34
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One picture’s worth a thousand words
one book inspires a generation
language and words will set you free
debased they will enslave humanity
Debased.
Pop culture dereliction waste
Pop culture dereliction waste
a corporate simulation
a pointless revolution
Pop culture dereliction waste
If pop does eat itself one day
its pancreas will fail before the end
substance removal not abuse
the epitaph of enlightenment
A corporate simulation
a pointless revolution
an arbitrary self is
Pop culture dereliction waste
A corporate simulation
a pointless revolution
an arbitrary self is
the symptom and the cancer
dystopian romancer
so lost and still so hostile
shallow and mediocre
Pop culture dereliction waste
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Sanctuary
03:56
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Craving a little peace
I created a world
from fragments of truth
rose tinted memories
cut up with pages
from books and magazines
I created a world
a whole world just for me
Escape to purgatory
I never see sunlight // this reality burns
Fantasy smiles in electric picture shows
Paradise landscapes and beautiful skin
Detox // melanoma // spare no saccharine
Ignorance is king
Knock me out with gas
so I can escape
consciousness erodes
I have to go to sleep
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Rio Goldhammer is the vocalist for 1919.
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